well, to @FluffyLothario, to some degree I'm being facetious, and playing the role of crotchety old man. I get that there are some legitimate uses, but it seems that we have taken it well past that as well.
I went through a phase of a mindset of “remember when people used Facebook mainly to talk to each other and not just post garbage and piss about?” But now I think it hasn’t really changed THAT much. People always posted a lot of shit on there, people do still talk, and the use of it to chat has probably died down partly just from the novelty wearing off. Plus, the entire world is now oriented around getting people to spam their business or their band or their new season’s trailer or their cause on Facebook, so no wonder it’s cluttered now.
That was why I specified that the thing that really gets my goat are, for example, the people who share Jesus/Bible quote pics or links to Christian websites at a rate of, say, 3-12 a day on there. People who are actively, purposefully spamming it, who are incapable, or seem to feel no need to filter, to whom the thought “am I posting too much?” is untouched territory.
I have a friend who is really into TV. Every moment of dialogue she watches and enjoys becomes her new status. If she watches TV for three or four hours, her ’status’ might update 10-20 times. And then she spams it just as freely with all manner of shit from tumblr.
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